Cross stitch and internet, AKA stitching acronyms and strange names

Posted in on July 14, 2014.

Internet is changing our way to talk. In the last months, following several cross stitch groups on internet, I've noticed that the cross stitch world is not exempt from this trend. So a user of one of this group thought to collect all the acronyms and strange names that are frequently used talking about cross stitch!

ACRONYMS

BAP - Big Ass Project

FAD - Fun & Done!

FFO - Finally Finished Object

FS - Forgotten Stash

LNS - Local Needlework Shop

McBAP - Massively Complicated Big Ass Project

ONS - Online Needlework Shop

ORT - Old Raggedy Threads / Orphaned Random Threads

PAD - Project All Done

PFO - Pulled from Oblivion (for those projects you haven't worked on in a long time)

PHD - Project Half Done

PIGS - projects in grocery sacks. Used for when you put your own kit together from fabric threads and pattern (with tote bags aka PIT)

RR - Round Robin (the act of passing a project from person to person until completed)

SABLE - Stash acquired beyond life expectancy

SEX - Stash Enchancement Experience

SINS - Stuff I'll Never Stitch

SIP - Stitching in Progress

STASH = Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden

TOAD = Trashed Object Abandoned In Disgust

USO - Unstarted Objects

WHIMM - Work Hidden in My Mind

WISP - Work in Slow Progress

WTF - Waiting to Finish

USEFUL TERMS:

FROG - the sound made when unpicked stitches are ripped out (Rip it, Rip It)

CONFETTI - stitching term for all those single stitches of different colors!

PARKING - the act of stitching with multiple active needles, each threaded with a different color. Especially useful with Confetti.

RAILROADING - The act of passing your needle between your two threaded strands to create the effect of two threads laying next to each other, like a railroad this gives a flatter, neater look to the top stitch.

STITCHY BUDDY - Any animal that "helps" (hinders) your WIP by sitting on, in, or near materials needed on a consistent basis.